The 2nd Democratic National Primary Debate

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All I've heard from Glass-Steagal from Lib/Conservative economists is that in the grand scheme of things, it's not going to make enough of a difference to actually matter- the AIG example Clinton gave is why.

I honestly find the fixation on Glass-Steagal (in spite of widespread agreement by economists that it wouldn't actually do much of anything) pretty baffling considering how stringently "pro-facts" the American left otherwise tries too hard to be.

(Even more baffling that Clinton not wanting to reinstate it is seen as a negative, but Sanders' apparent ignorance of the aforementioned consensus isn't seen as the nakedly populist, bullshit pander that it is.)
 
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frank miller is rolling in his grave
 
Fuck... Called out live. Republicans better get this shit too.
 
That the concrete answer may well be 90%. And if it is, so what? This isn't a tagline, it's a question of how to fix a problem that is already unravelling our democracy.

1. economically, shit is fucked
2. we had sustained growth with a 90% upper tax bracket in the past
3. the president can't set exact tax rates anyway

I guess I don't see a problem? Just imagine it's 70%, that's probably the realistic upper bound.
Every time Bernie gets questioned about how he will pay for healthcare, college, etc. he gives a very broad answer without any numbers. I know it's not realistic to calculate exact numbers, but give a reasonable range. 40-90% is not that. Until he figures that out, it will always look like he's dodging scrutiny to his ideas.
 
I honestly find the fixation on Glass-Steagal (in spite of widespread agreement by economists that it wouldn't actually do much of anything) pretty baffling considering how stringently "pro-facts" the American left otherwise tries too hard to be.

(Even more baffling that Clinton not wanting to reinstate it is seen as a negative, but Sanders' apparent ignorance of the aforementioned consensus isn't seen as the nakedly populist, bullshit pander that it is.)
That's the rub- the left is broadly correct on a lot of issues, but populist liberal ideas are very often generally terrible ways of implementing solutions to them.
 
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